Start with @graph to draw the answer as a flow diagram.
Direct funders shown
1
largest first
Trail ends at
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0% of the money
Committee record
disclosed 0%inferable 0%not walked 0%dark 100%
Of $5.0M traced back up to 1 hop: 0% reaches named sources, 100% stops at groups that do not disclose donors. Sched. A ↗
Who gave to NRDC ACTION VOTES
- NRDC ACTION FUNDorganizationgave$5.0Mto NRDC ACTION VOTESFEC ↗
Separately: what NRDC ACTION VOTES declared about candidates in this race
- NRDC ACTION VOTESSuper PACagainstDave McCormick$2.0MFEC Sched. E ↗
Listed apart from the funders above on purpose: receipts are pooled, so no funder can be tied to any of these expenditures.
- money edge — a filed transfer into a committee's account
- targeting edge — the spender's for/against declaration; no money reaches the candidate
Assumptions and limits
- Receipts are itemized Schedule A contributions and committee-to-committee transfers as filed with the FEC; unitemized small-dollar receipts, loans and offsets are not shown.
- Each hop is the reported total between those two parties. Once money is pooled in a committee it is fungible, so a second-hop funder's dollars cannot be traced to any specific spending by the committee asked about.
- "Reaches named people or organizations" and "stops at groups that do not disclose" are the visibility shares from this committee's multi-hop chain walk; the walk's full method, caps and dead ends are on its chain page.
- "Spent against" and "spent for" are independent expenditures (FEC Schedule E): the spender's own declaration about a candidate, paid to the spender's vendors. None of this money reaches the candidate.